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TIL in 2012 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation decided that an episode of the animated children’s series Peppa Pig was inappropriate for an Australian audience because it said that spiders were not to be feared.

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RALw TIL that George Washington was a redhead.
4kRyJ TIL the screw thread is believed to have been invented around 400 BCE, by Archytas of Tarentum, a Greek philosopher sometimes called “the father of mechanics.” The general principle of the screw was applied early on, in cities like Pompeii, to extract olive oil and grape juice
4kLMg TIL that the the first vacuum cleaner was horse-drawn.
A1A4 TIL Elvis Presley had terrible constipation and actually died pooping due to a condition called megacolon
V7gk TIL of “shifting baseline syndrome”, where large declines in ecosystems or species are masked as each subsequent generation redefines what they consider a ‘normal’ environment.